First Language and Sociolinguistic Influences on the Sound Patterns of Indian English

The current dissertation is a systematic study of variation in the English spoken in multilingual and multicultural India. Three experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of two native languages (Hindi and Telugu) on English, which is spoken by almost all Indians as a second language....

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Main Author: Sirsa, Hema
Other Authors: Redford, Melissa
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18715